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Your VM should now attempt to boot from the Ubuntu ISO use the “Try Ubuntu” option to boot into Ubuntu 18.04. Step 4: Using Ubuntu to expand the partition
If for any reason it doesn’t you can select the boot order by right clicking the VM and going to the “Settings” menu then in the “System” menu you can adjust the the boot order as shown below. Last for this step check the “Live CD/DVD” checkbox, once done it should look something like this.īoot the VM in my experience as long as the disk is considered present it will boot from it. Now select the ISO from where ever you downloaded it to. Now that you have your drive ready we must load it with the ISO in our example we are using Ubuntu 18.04 as mentioned before.Ĭlick the CD/DVD drive in the list and on the right hand side click the blue disc icon and then click “Choose virtual optical disk file”. If you do not see one click blue drive icon with a “+” on it near the center at the bottom and select “Add Optical Drive”. In the “Storage” tab if you see a CD/DVD drive listed go ahead and click it. Right click your VM in VirtualBox and go to “Settings”. If you want to change the size from my example (15GB) the resize flag works by declaring how many MB it will be: In this example I am using the default install location so for me it will be:ģ) Now we resize our VDI copy using the following command. For this step you will need to open up a command prompt or terminal. You may have already noticed but VirtualBox does not have the ability to expand the virtual disk space in the user interface, but it does include CLI tools for doing this. Step 1: Increasing the size of the VM VDD If you don't have one on hand I would go ahead and start that downloading here: This process will require a linux bootable iso, in this example I'm using a live boot CD of Ubuntu 18.04. Continue with caution, these steps have been proven to be successful and should be for you however, we always advise having proper backups just in case. Please note that we are not responsible for any damage to or data loss that may occur by attempting this procedure.
We suggest making sure you have excellent backups of the VM before proceeding. This process is involved and requires some steps which could result in data loss if they are done incorrectly. This FAQ was designed to help guide you through expanding the SimpleRisk VM disk size using VirtualBox. Solution home SimpleRisk Core Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) How do I Increase the SimpleRisk VM Size? (VirtualBox)(Encrypted Disk)
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